Summary
In this chapter, you learned that onboarding Windows clients and servers to MDE means that the device is available for EDR functionality, and how to perform onboarding in various ways depending on the tools you have available. You learned about the support for down-level and modern systems, across Azure and on-premises, with the ability to now make informed decisions about the most appropriate way for your scenario.
As you begin your journey with MDE, you want to approach onboarding with the long-term in mind, utilizing Intune. To begin with testing or very small-scale deployments, you can manually onboard devices with scripts. If Intune-only onboarding is not an option, due to time constraints or technical limitations in your organization, you can centrally control deployments with other tools, such as Group Policy or Configuration Manager. For servers, you can license Defender for Servers as part of Defender for Cloud, while also benefiting from automatic onboarding. Azure...
